In beloved career-launching and career-ending roles — and much in between — McCallum, who died Monday at 90, was always reason enough to tune in.
It had something to do with my temperamental preference for sidekicks over alpha dogs, who, unencumbered by the weight of conventional heroism, were freer, funnier, more eccentric characters — actual characters.
“U.N.C.L.E.” had its phenomenal moment, and McCallum, who reportedly received more fan mail than any other actor in the history of its producing studio, MGM, was mobbed by crowds like a hot British pop musician. And he was, in fact, musical. In the series’ heyday, McCallum recorded four albums for, later sampled by the likes of Dr. Dre, John Legend and others, where he conducted instrumental arrangements of pop hits and some of his own compositions. In one “U.N.C.L.E.
Ducky, after all, was not a million miles from Illya — soft-spoken, witty, impossible to rattle, cool, funny, warm or a little severe as the situation demanded. As in “U.N.C.L.E.,” McCallum played a seemingly secondary character who is absolutely essential to the narrative, as much as or more than his more melodramatically or physically active colleagues — the sidekick star.
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